Posted by Stephen Wood in School of Business Blog on November 25, 2015
Professor of Management at the School, Stephen Wood, presents some of the findings – and methodology – from the National Survey of Staff Morale amongst Mental Health Staff 2013’s Francis report on the failings in the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Trust highlighted bullying as one part of the problem. While the effects of bullying upon an individual’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Absenteeism, Abuse, Bullying, Discrimination, Francis Report, Hurdle Count Regression Model, Mental Health, NHS, NHS Trust, Psychology, Sick Leave, Sociology, Stress, Values Based Recruitment |
Posted by Stephen Dunne in School of Business Blog on April 15, 2015
Stephen Dunne (henceforth SD): Can I ask you to recount, when you set out on the book, what you were trying to do and in relation to what body of work? WD: The main question I had, following on from my PhD, concerned competition and competitiveness as forms of justification, or as sources of […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Biopolitics, Bob Jessop, Capitalism, Chicago School, Competition, Competitiveness, Critical Management Studies, Critique, Deirdre McCloskey, Donald Mckenzie, Economic Policy, Economics, Economy & Society, Efficiency, Entrepreneurialism, Entrepreneurs, ephemera: theory and politics in organisation, Eve Chiapello, Finance, Financialization, Friedrich Hayek, Governmentality, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter, Karl Popper, Keynes, Keynesianism, Laurent Thevenot, Leadership, Legitimacy, Legitimation, Liberalism, London Riots, Luc Boltanski, Management, Management Gurus, Managerialism, Marxism, Max Weber, Michael Porter, Michel Callon, Michel Foucault, Milton Friedman, Money, Mont Pelerin Society, Neoliberalism, NHS, Paul Mason, Philip Mirowski, Pierre Bourdieu, Policy Making, Political Economy, Politics, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Russell Brand, Scottish Independence, Scottish Referendum, Social Class, Social Studies of Finance (SSF), Sociology, Strategy, Tax, The New Spirit of Capitalism, Thomas Piketty, Violence |
Posted by Benjamin Hopkins in School of Business Blog on March 25, 2015
Recently appointed Lecturer in Work and Employment, Benjamin Hopkins, ponders a little about how he has been represented in the popular media, and a lot about how research subjects are represented within academic media. The forthcoming election has sparked a flurry of television programmes discussing immigration: Channel 4’s UKIP: The First 100 Days, ITV’s Tonight: […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABS, BBC, Channel 4, Election, Green Party, Immigration, Interview, Interviewing, Jo Brewis, Mass Media, media, Media Appearances, Natalie Bennett, NHS, Plaid Cymru, Public Debate, Qualitative Research, REF, Representation, Research, Research Ethics, Research Methodology, Research Methods, The Smiths, UKIP, Week In Week Out |
Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Melanie Simms in School of Business Blog on March 12, 2014
March 2014 saw the announcement of no less than eleven (11) separate investments into projects within the broad area of work and employment. The small grants of up to £2,500 will further boost the School of Management’s profile in this area since it merged with the Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS). Some of the […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anarchism, Austerity, Bob Carter, Car Wash, Centre for Labour Market Studies (CLMS), Chris Grocott, Distance Learning, Elke Weik, Foxconn, Funding, Future Research, Gibraltar, Glynne Williams, Grey Economy, Heidi Ashton, Henrietta O' Connor, Heritage, History, Ian Clark, Jo Grady, John Goodwin, Katharine Venter, Library Sector, Management Pedagogy, Martin Quinn, NHS, Norbert Elias, Older Workers, Paradata and Marginalia, Paul Brook, Performance Management, Richard Courtney, Rutvica Andrijasevic, Sarah Robinson, Student Experience, Trade Unionism, Turkey, Vanessa Beck, Will Green, Wine, Work and Employment, Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS), World Congress of the International Sociological Association, Young Workers |
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